Bear/Oldenburg4-3 at 2024 USA Curling Mixed Doubles National Championship

Madison Bear/Aidan Oldenburg (Chaska, MN) finished 4-3 in the 16-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Bear/Oldenburg lost 6-1 to Taylor Anderson/Ben Richardson (Chaska, MN), then responded with a 7-3 win over Ann Podoll/Nathan Parry (Fargo, ND). Bear/Oldenburg won 11-6 against BriAnna Weldon/Sean Franey (Denver, CO). Bear/Oldenburg went on to lose 10-3 against Rebecca Hamilton/Matt Hamilton (McFarland, WI). Bear/Oldenburg responded with a 11-0 win over Regan Birr/Todd Birr (Blaine, MN). Bear/Oldenburg won 7-5 against Aileen Geving/John Shuster (Duluth, MN). Bear/Oldenburg went on to lose 10-5 against Sarah Anderson/Andrew Stopera (Minneapolis, MN) in their final qualifying round match.

Bear/Oldenburg earned 6.750 world rankings points for their preliminary round wins. For week 32 of the event schedule, Bear/Oldenburg did not improve upon their best events, dropping from 100th to 104th place overall on the World Ranking Standings with 14.750 total points. Bear/Oldenburg ranks 104th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 14.750 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES
2024	16	8	0	0.667	4-0	1-0	0-0	0-0	1-0

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G
2024	171	174	119	10.18	6.96	3.22	5.67	4.33	1.79	1.61	0.00

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD
2024	76	101	27	0	3-0	9-1	21-2	1.33	0.36	0.43	0.30

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE
2024	95	73	92	0	1-5	7-6	12-11	0.77	0.97	0.57	0.46

Sudbury's Jake and Tanner Horgan will ply their trade elsewhere next season as John Epping and Ian MacMillan explore options for the future.

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